RE: memory and improvisation

["Neil Goldstein" <ngold@home.com>]

Not meaning to go OT, but just saw Memento on DVD, with the director
interview. He said, in essence the film is an inquiry into memory, how it
functions. The protaganist has lost short term memory, but we all have
imperfect memory. It always is selective memory and we create our lives and
art colored by all we remember and have forgotten.

Just wanted to write this down before I forget :-)

Neil Goldstein
Portland, Oregon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Hoeltje [mailto:ahoeltje@best.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:58 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: memory and improvisation
>
>
> on 9/27/01 2:57 PM, Matthias Grob at matthias@grob.org wrote:
>
> >>
> >> i heard of a theory of memory where it acts like a pack of ten dogs.
> >> you send the dogs out looking for the ball and they run out into
> >> the woods, here and there, until one happily comes running
> back with it.
> >
> > I keep reading this and dont get the point... is it about the
> other 9 dogs?
>
> It may be a joke - at least I thought it was funny.  After the
> age of 50 you
> start running short of dogs.  "Memory is the history of
> forgetting"  I read
> that some place recently.
>
> :-)
>
> -Allan
>